10 Hollywood Movies You Might Like

1. star map

Maps to the Stars

• Canada, France, Germany, USA, 2014.
• Drama, comedy.
• Duration: 112 minutes.
• IMDb: 6.2.

Aging actress Havana Segrand is going through a difficult stage in her career. To relax, the heroine goes to Stafford Weiss, the famous author of the best-selling books on psychology. But that one is full of problems: his 13-year-old actor son returned from rehab and starts filming again, despite the doubts of the studio.

Meanwhile, a strange girl, Agatha, appears in town with burn marks on her face. She becomes an assistant to Havana and befriends a limousine driver named Jerome Fontana, who dreams of becoming a screenwriter.

David Cronenberg in his film not only criticizes the inhabitants of Hollywood, but also passes judgment on what modern cinema as a whole has become. Another good reason to watch this work is the strongest cast.

2. Long live Caesar!

Hail, Caesar!

• USA, UK, Japan, 2016.
• Drama, comedy, detective, musical.
• Duration: 106 minutes.
• IMDb: 6.3.

Hollywood in the early 1950s. There's a lot going on behind the scenes at Capitol Studios that viewers don't need to know about. A Western star doesn't fit into the melodrama, a swimmer actress gets pregnant out of wedlock, and a future hero peplumseems to have been stolen. It's good that among the employees there is a top manager, Eddie Mannix, who can solve absolutely any problem.

Perhaps this is the funniest and brightest Coen film. One of the main roles in it was played by George Clooney. Prior to that, he appeared in their tapes "Oh, where are you, brother?", "Intolerable cruelty" and "Burn after reading."

These three joint works of the actor and the brothers-directors are usually combined into a conditional series - the "idiotic trilogy". But in the end, Clooney and the Coens also released a fourth film, where the star again appears in the form of a klutz.

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3. Death of Superman

Hollywoodland

• USA, Canada, 2006.
• Thriller, drama, melodrama, crime, detective story, biography, history.
• Duration: 126 minutes.
• IMDb: 6.5.

Unlucky private detective Luis Simo undertakes to investigate the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series about Superman. Having delved into the circumstances of the life of the deceased, Simo realizes that the leadership of the studio is involved in his death.

The film tells about the murder of George Reeves, which is still not solved and is considered one of the Hollywood mysteries. The picture is worth seeing Adriana Brody as a savvy but unlucky detective and, of course, Ben Affleck as Superman.

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4. Hollywood finale

Hollywood ending

• USA, 2002
• Melodrama, comedy.
• Duration: 112 minutes.
• IMDb: 6.6.

Hollywood producers are hiring director Val Waxman to direct a new blockbuster. This is a great chance for everyone to forget the owner of two "Oscars». But due to emotional overstrain, Val loses his sight and now he will have to shoot the film blindly. However, until the last moment, the hero manages to create the appearance that he completely controls the process.

Woody Allen has already ridiculed the world of Hollywood in Bullets Over Broadway and Celebrities, and in Hollywood Ending he completely brought it to the point of absurdity. In Allen's view, the production mechanism of the Hollywood machine is so fine-tuned that it no longer matters who the director is.

5. Munk

mank

• USA, 2020.
• Biography, drama.
• Duration: 131 minutes.
• IMDb: 6.9.

Young director Orson Welles has just been entrusted with a big budget for his first film, Citizen Kane, in which he himself is set to star. The director turns to one of the main Hollywood screenwriters, Herman Mankiewicz, for help. But he cannot stand up because of a broken leg in a recent accident and also suffers from alcohol addiction.

«Munkis David Fincher's dream project written by his late father. This measured black-and-white picture is so out of the director's filmography that fans of the thrillers "Seven" and "Zodiac" will certainly be very surprised by watching it.

By the way, before watching, it is better to read something about the life and work of Mankiewicz and Wells, and also to get acquainted with Citizen Kane, if you have not seen it. Otherwise, many moments in the plot will not be entirely clear.

6. Soldiers of failure

Tropic Thunder

• USA, UK, Germany, 2008.
• Action, comedy, war.
• Duration: 121 minutes.
• IMDb: 7.0.

Hollywood director Damien Cockburn decides to make a cool blockbuster about the Vietnam War. At the suggestion of the film's consultant - a seasoned warrior - famous actors are thrown into the Asian jungle, full of hidden cameras. But by chance, the artists find themselves on the territory of drug dealers armed with real weapons.

Ben Stiller filmed a very funny satire on the cinema behind the scenes. In it, he ridiculed many clichés of filmmaking and at the same time all the famous military blockbusters like Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and Full Metal Jacket.

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7. Barton Fink

Barton Fink

• UK, USA, 1991.
• Drama, thriller, comedy.
• Duration: 117 minutes.
• IMDb: 7.7.

Aspiring playwright Barton Fink moves to Los Angeles to work on a wrestling story for a Hollywood studio. He checks into a cheap hotel and starts writing. The case is going very slowly, because Fink is completely ignorant of the topic. In addition, various inexplicable things constantly happen in the hotel.

In the late 1980s, the Coen brothers themselves found themselves in a creative dead end, coming up with the plot of Miller's Crossing. Then the authors decided to temporarily switch to another project. They became the ironic story of an unlucky writer, whose torment was partly a reflection of their own difficulties with the Crossroads.

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8. Ed Wood

Ed Wood

• USA, 1994.
• Drama, comedy, biography.
• Duration: 127 minutes.
• IMDb: 7.8.

Enthusiastic but mediocre aspiring director Ed Wood dreams of making a movie. He meets the once very popular and now forgotten horror actor Bela Lugosi and persuades him to become the main star of his films.

Black and white biopic Tim Burton about the worst director in the history of Hollywood has earned critical acclaim. The picture covers the period during which Ed Wood made his most infamous films.

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9. La La Land

La La Land

• USA, Hong Kong, 2016.
• Musical, drama, melodrama, comedy.
• Duration: 128 minutes.
• IMDb: 8.0.

Mia and Seb live in Los Angeles. The first dreams of becoming an actress, and the second hopes one day to open a jazz club. The heroes fall in love with each other and begin to live together, but the closer success is, the more difficult their relationship becomes.

The idea of ​​a musical about Hollywood was born by Damien Chazelle in his student years. And in the image of the main character, you can easily see the director himself. Just as Sebastian fights to share his passion for jazz with as many people as possible, so Chazelle with his film is trying to revive the audience's interest in old musical pictures.

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10. sunset boulevard

Sunset Blvd.

• USA, 1950.
• Film noir, drama.
• Duration: 110 minutes.
• IMDb: 8.4.

Fleeing from obsessive creditors, unsuccessful screenwriter Joe Gillis accidentally meets the fading film star Norma Desmond. She offers the playwright to rewrite the obviously hopeless script, where she will be assigned the main role. Joe stays in her mansion on Sunset Boulevard and gradually becomes completely dependent on a despotic woman.

In Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder opened up behind the scenes of Hollywood and showed that sometimes you have to make deals with your conscience in order to gain recognition and fame. Moreover, the feeling of hopelessness is further enhanced by the fact that viewers from the first frames know about the bloody denouement: the film begins with a scene in which the corpse of the protagonist is floating in the pool.

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